[HTML][HTML] Comparative digestive physiology

WH Karasov, AE Douglas - Comprehensive Physiology, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In vertebrates and invertebrates, morphological and functional features of gastrointestinal
(GI) tracts generally reflect food chemistry, such as content of carbohydrates, proteins, fats …

Insights from an integrated view of the biology of apple snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

KA Hayes, RL Burks, A Castro-Vazquez, PC Darby… - Malacologia, 2015 - BioOne
Apple snails (Ampullariidae) are among the largest and most ecologically important
freshwater snails. The introduction of multiple species has reinvigorated the field and …

Comparing apples with apples: clarifying the identities of two highly invasive Neotropical Ampullariidae (Caenogastropoda)

KA Hayes, RH Cowie, SC Thiengo… - Zoological Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Ampullariidae comprises two lineages of freshwater gastropods: one Old World and one
New World. Recent molecular work confirmed the monophyly of the family and began to …

[PDF][PDF] The genome of the golden apple snail Pomacea canaliculata provides insight into stress tolerance and invasive adaptation

C Liu, Y Zhang, Y Ren, H Wang, S Li, F Jiang… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata) is a freshwater snail listed
among the top 100 worst invasive species worldwide and a noted agricultural and …

Control of invasive apple snails and their use as pollutant ecotoxic indicators: A review

F Panda, SG Pati, A Bal, K Das, L Samanta… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Apple snails are one of the most survived fresh water invasive species that causes massive
economic loss to vegetations, especially to the rice fields. They survive against many …

Novel animal defenses against predation: a snail egg neurotoxin combining lectin and pore-forming chains that resembles plant defense and bacteria attack toxins

MS Dreon, MV Frassa, M Ceolín, S Ituarte, JW Qiu… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Although most eggs are intensely predated, the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail
Pomacea canaliculata have only one reported predator due to unparalleled biochemical …

First proteome of the egg perivitelline fluid of a freshwater gastropod with aerial oviposition

J Sun, H Zhang, H Wang, H Heras… - Journal of Proteome …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Pomacea canaliculata is a freshwater snail that deposits eggs on solid substrates above the
water surface. Previous studies have emphasized the nutritional and protective functions of …

Maternal effects and warning signal honesty in eggs and offspring of an aposematic ladybird beetle

AE Winters, M Stevens, C Mitchell… - Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The eggs of oviparous species are often subject to intense predation pressure. One parental
strategy to deter predators is to produce eggs that are laced with noxious chemicals and are …

Egg toxic compounds in the animal kingdom. A comprehensive review

ML Giglio, W Boland, H Heras - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1951 to 2022 Packed with nutrients and unable to escape, eggs are the most
vulnerable stage of an animal's life cycle. Consequently, many species have evolved …

The eggs of the apple snail Pomacea maculata are defended by indigestible polysaccharides and toxic proteins

ML Giglio, S Ituarte, MY Pasquevich… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The freshwater snails Pomacea Perry, 1810 lay conspicuous aerial egg clutches that are
ignored by most predators. Egg biochemical defenses in the apple snail Pomacea …